Samsung 4K UHD Blu-ray Player UBD-K8500

[mikesncc1701]

Has anyone had trouble playing back a UHD VUDU title on theirs yet? Mine will only play the HDX version of Fury Road (the only UHD title I own on VUDU).

[mikesncc1701]

Originally Posted by aaronwt2065

That's why you pay $8 for a replacement remote. I haven't touched the included remote since I picked up A new large Samsung remote off ebay. It has the same buttons and more as the included K8500 remote. Large buttons, numerical keypad, dedicated FF/REW buttons. It's much better than the included remote. Especially since I don't accidentally hit other buttons any more.

Here is the link to the ebay sale I got mine from. They have sold over eight hundred of these remotes. Mine arrived in a few days after ordering.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161721396982...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Although it looks like they don't have many left now. I think a lot of people with the K8500 picked up one of these larger remotes. And the price is now $7.45. It was $8 when I ordered mine in early May.

Man....I can't thank you enough for that link. I can't wait to have something better than that piece of shit it came with. Not only for the FF/REW buttons, but a bigger directional pad alone was worth it.

[waff]

Originally Posted by mikesncc1701

Has anyone had trouble playing back a UHD VUDU title on theirs yet? Mine will only play the HDX version of Fury Road (the only UHD title I own on VUDU).

I don't think the VUDU app for this player supports UHD versions of the movies. From VUDU, if you go to "Collections" you'll notice that the "VUDU UHD" is not even listed. That tells me it is not supported on this version of the app.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by ray0414

Does this remote have a home button or a way to access "tools " to change the picture mode?

Or a "Subtitle" button?
I dont understand how a $400 player can have a worse remote than even older models! You literally have to open the Tool menu, scroll down to Subtitles, and select Subtitle Language of your choice!!!
With my 2014 Samsung player I just hit the Subtitles button, that easy!

[waff]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Or a "Subtitle" button?
I dont understand how a $400 player can have a worse remote than even older models! You literally have to open the Tool menu, scroll down to Subtitles, and select Subtitle Language of your choice!!!
With my 2014 Samsung player I just hit the Subtitles button, that easy!

Just and FYI, if you use any kind of higher end programmable universal remote, the codes are available for subtitles, tools, FF, skip, numbers, etc. even though they may not be on the remote that comes with the player.

Also, agree that the fast forwarding is a bit dumb, but with a full number pad, you can press the right arrow and key in a number to jump to a point in time to the movie. Of course not easily done with the original remote.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by waff

Just and FYI, if you use any kind of higher end programmable universal remote, the codes are available for subtitles, tools, FF, skip, numbers, etc. even though they may not be on the remote that comes with the player.

Also, agree that the fast forwarding is a bit dumb, but with a full number pad, you can press the right arrow and key in a number to jump to a point in time to the movie. Of course not easily done with the original remote.

With the original remote, if you want to rw/ff within the same scene you have to "press and hold"...Needless to say, you always end up skipping to the next scene by accident, very frustrating. They should have two separate ff/rw sets of buttons

[aaronwt2065]

Originally Posted by ray0414

Does this remote have a home button or a way to access "tools " to change the picture mode?

Yes. It has all of the same buttons as the included remote and more.

[F34R]

Is that remote linked above, backlit?

[Rhoq]

Noticed something odd with my UBD-K8500 yesterday. I did something that I haven't done in years: watched a DVD.

I held on to a few TV DVDs which I knew had no chance of getting an HD upgrade. Pulled out Titus Season 1 and popped it in. It looked awful when it first started up, scan lines all throughout the image. After a few seconds, the screen went blank and the audio dropped out for a second. When it came back on, the scan lines were gone. This happened one or two more times once I started an episode. I'm guessing the player is detecting the video format and adjusting accordingly, but shouldn't it already be doing this before hand?

At one point we had it paused for an extended period of time, maybe 20 minutes. When I came back to it, it would do this blank screen thing every few minutes. The only way to get to stop was to turn the player off an back on again. Has anyone else tried watching a DVD on their 8500 and if so, have you noticed similar behavior? Is there something in the players' settings that I might have missed?

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Rhoq

Noticed something odd with my UBD-K8500 yesterday. I did something that I haven't done in years: watched a DVD.

I held on to a few TV DVDs which I knew had no chance of getting an HD upgrade. Pulled out Titus Season 1 and popped it in. It looked awful when it first started up, scan lines all throughout the image. After a few seconds, the screen went blank and the audio dropped out for a second. When it came back on, the scan lines were gone. This happened one or two more times once I started an episode. I'm guessing the player is detecting the video format and adjusting accordingly, but shouldn't it already be doing this before hand?

At one point we had it paused for an extended period of time, maybe 20 minutes. When I came back to it, it would do this blank screen thing every few minutes. The only way to get to stop was to turn the player off an back on again. Has anyone else tried watching a DVD on their 8500 and if so, have you noticed similar behavior? Is there something in the players' settings that I might have missed?

Been playing lots of DVDs on mine with no issue, actually I was impressed with how fast the player can switch gears from BD to DVD

[FilmFreakosaurus]

My copy of Sicario refused to play on the K8500 and it looks like I'm not the only one who ran across this issue.

Is it the player and an incompatibility... or is there a large batch of bum discs in the field? All my other 4k discs play fine.

[HDTV1080P]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

My copy of Sicario refused to play on the K8500 and it looks like I'm not the only one who ran across this issue.

Is it the player and an incompatibility... or is there a large batch of bum discs in the field? All my other 4k discs play fine.

If you have the latest firmware update installed then it must be a problem with the optical disc being defective. This Sicario 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray review written back on March 8th 2016 had to use the Samsung 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player. Exchanging the Blu-ray disc should solve the problem.


https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sicario-4K-Blu-ray/147731/#Review

[HDTV1080P]

Here is some interesting info:


quote:


"Dolby Vision material is currently available only via streaming from sites such as Vudu. According to Dolby, there will be Dolby Vision Ultra HD Blu-ray releases later in the year. As I write this, however, the only UHD Blu-ray player is the Samsung UBD-K8500 (reviewed in our June issue, also available at soundandvision.com), which does not recognize or pass through Dolby Vision bitstreams. This shouldn’t leave early adopters high and dry, though. All UHD Blu-rays offering Dolby Vision must also offer HDR10; no UHD Blu-rays will be mastered in Dolby Vision alone."

Read more at http://www.soundandvision.com/conten...8jAbuqqsIYU.99

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

If you have the latest firmware update installed then it must be a problem with the optical disc being defective. This Sicario 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray review written back on March 8th 2016 had to use the Samsung 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player. Exchanging the Blu-ray disc should solve the problem.


https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sicario-4K-Blu-ray/147731/#Review

Maybe later. It seems like others have gone through multiple copies. I'll try for The Martian: Extended Cut, or if that is a no-go with Walmart, I'll pick up Labyrinth instead.

[Reeniop5]

Originally Posted by aaronwt2065

???Nothing on the player shows you the resolution.

Nada

[aaronwt2065]

Originally Posted by F34R

Is that remote linked above, backlit?

Unfortunately not.

[Rhoq]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Been playing lots of DVDs on mine with no issue, actually I was impressed with how fast the player can switch gears from BD to DVD

I'm impressed with how fast this player is. Every other stand alone player I've had took forever to load up a disc. I wonder if maybe the issue I ran into was caused by my receiver changing resolutions? Not a huge deal though.

[Danny80916]

I wonder what will be the better play this one or the xbox one s

[aaronwt2065]

Originally Posted by Danny80916

I wonder what will be the better play this one or the xbox one s

I wouldn't expect the XBOne S to be better than the K8500 for UHD BD playback.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Rhoq

I'm impressed with how fast this player is. Every other stand alone player I've had took forever to load up a disc. I wonder if maybe the issue I ran into was caused by my receiver changing resolutions? Not a huge deal though.

Turn Video Conversion off on your receiver